A/B Rotation Letter Designator
Trade Request Process
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If you are based in HNL or LHR, you will serve Reserve status in accordance with your seniority on a rotating basis, with the exception of the top twenty-five percent (25%) of Flight Attendants at each Domicile who will be exempt from Reserve rotation and those with five years of seniority or less who are designated Reserves. In these locations, all other Flight Attendants will be assigned a Reserve letter designation that will be indicated on your Primary Line Bidding screen. The letter designations are as follows:
➢ “L” = Lineholder – Top 25% of Flight Attendants at each Domicile
➢ “R” = Reserve – Any Flight Attendant with five years of seniority or less at each Domicile
➢ “A” or “B” = Reserve rotation – All remaining Flight Attendants at each Domicile
“A”, “B”, or “R” designation does not necessarily place you on Reserve or Reserve rotation, but this does mean that the most junior Flight Attendant upward will be subject to serving Reserve, if needed.
In the “A” designated or odd numbered months, “A” designated Flight Attendants will serve Reserve.
In the “B” designated or even numbered months, “B” designate Flight Attendants will serve Reserve.
Flight Attendants in their Reserve month will be subject to Reserve unless their seniority allows them to hold a Regular Line in your Domicile in any given month. If you bid Reserve, you will be awarded the Reserve Line according to your seniority in either month.
The Reserve rotation months are designated as follows:
If, as a Flight Attendant in your designated Lineholder month, you bid and are awarded a Reserve line during that month, it will not alter your Reserve obligation in the following month.
If you will be on vacation during any given month, a Vacation Relief Line is not a valid bid. However, you may be assigned to a Vacation Relief Line in a month during which you have vacation, provided no other line is available to be awarded to you and you have not bid for an available Reserve Line.
A/B Rotation letter designator trade requests are submitted in CCS and must be submitted before the first schedule day of the month preceding the bid month you are requesting to trade. For example, in order to effective for the October bid month, requests to trade A/B letters must be submitted in CCS prior to last day of the August bid month.
IMPORTANT NOTE: FLIGHT ATTENDANTS IN AN INTERNATIONAL PURSER SUB-BASE AT THOSE LOCATIONS MAY ONLY REQUEST AN A/B ROTATION LETTER DESIGNATOR TRADE WITH ANOTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT IN THAT SAME INTERNATIONAL PURSER SUB-BASE.
Submitting a Request in CCS
Submit an A/B Rotation letter designator trade request by logging into CCS > Schedule > A/B Rotation Trade Request. Click on the New Request window and fill in the requested information including the desired effective date for the bid month/year and employee ID number of the flight attendant with whom you wish to trade.